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Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-02-05
DAKOTA CONCENTRATIONS.

4 is asserted with apparent confidence
that Engle will bs continued q d.
kota's attorney. general.
Another boiler and more steam p;psa
have been added to the Madison norsnaI
school heAting apparatus.
Next week Prof. Lealic, OF Chicago,
will hold . musical convention OF, ave
days duration at Madison.
Tho firm Of Jensen q Reeves OF Park.
ston, has dissolved partnership. Mr.
Jensen viii continue In the bnsinc.s
The commissioners Of Potter county
have reScinded theresolution Of last year
paying : bounty on vol and gophey
Doalps.
The Northern Paciio company u 20
furnish 100000 worth Of seed wheat
along it, line, and wait for its pay mn
I'll The crops are in,
e. p. LeGrant, Of the firm Of Rhine
hart + Ls(arant. Parkston, has sold his
interest in the livery business TO MI.
Rhinshart. Who will oont;nae it.
Mouse river stockmen report cattle
thriving finely, Notwithstanding the ex.
treme cold. HAyi in liberal quantities l.
being fed, and atock isin excellsnt CON.
dition,
Tho firm Of Girmsn q Widnan III
Parkstoa. has dissolved partnership By
mutsl consent, % tske effect Oh ths
arat day o. March. Mr. Grimen will
continue the kuainess.
Pierre special End: The blizzard has
nowEtssed se=T dkys. and ali trains have
been suspended. The mercury has aver
sged 10 below ssro. The snox IL the
deepestE known forltvsnty.dye years.
Messfs. Trow. Cameron, Daley and
Dyer. D thu 0ailfornis excursionis,s
afrom Msdison. have returned and repo,t
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-02-05

OF q sensation in Paris than wa oc-
cAsioned by the recent 8. ase Of the Lon
don News. The French press, however,
maintain q noticeable reserve with re-
gard to IL, and simply reproduce it with.
out comment. Ia the higher political
orioles less importance is attached to b 8
article than by the general public, be-
cause II is remembered that the same
paper, in 1876, pabl,shed a similar sensa-
tional article, which Was entitled "Waf
in Sight" As this turned out at the
time to nean little or nothing pIacti-
cAlly. the effect Of the present publica-
tion is fairly discounted.
London, Feb. "A dispatch from
Berlin says:
ALI the newspapers except the North
GermanG Gazette are discussing the Berlin
POSTS recent article on the situation in
France. The Vassische Zeitong con-
dennis the article as q Offering wanton
p~rovoostion to France. The Freisin-
inge declares that the article was espec-
tally designed to play upon the fears OF
German electors. The Kreuz ZeituDg
Announces that the military commission
has completed the examination. of new
infantry equipment, which facilitates
the carrying Of soldiers baggage, and
enables men to bresthe more freely
The rife is also more easily slung
Army crops commanders to-day upani
mously approved the new equipment
which will be adopted Immediately up
on receiving the sanction ofthe emperor
The Paris Temps refuses to regard as So
rious the attacks Of German papers upon
France. It says they are due TO the cleo
toral game, the issue OF which will be Che
triumph Of imperialism or parliamentary
ism. A majority Of the newspapers IL
Vienna praise France for the soberness
with which she treats German alarms
and express impatience at what they
term Bismarck's wsnton provocations.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-02-05
q very pleasaht trip. 1t lie reported that
some OF them have invested in California

some Of them have invested in California
property.
Sunday night Nelson Williams, a
from Grafton, while intoxs
icated, started to walk from Mimic TO
Grafton. nine miles. He was found the
next morning lying abeside the railroad
track, frozen to death.
The freight train which left Canton
Thursday struck q hard bank three miles
north Of Eden and went into the ditch.
No one MAS hurt, but the obstruction
prevented the passenger train from
Sioux City reaching Canton that day.
Mandan special, Feb. Bird: No west
bound trains left here since Monday till
to-day. A train Of seven cars and four
engines started this evening, preceded
by two engines with plows. No train
from the vest bias arrived here since
Monday.
A telegram reneived at Salem Wsdnes-
day announces the death from consump-
tion Of j. =. Rntsn, formerly editor and
proprietor Of the Pioneer Register OF
salem. MIR. Rntan was = young man,
and displayed muo ability in the con-
duct Of his paper. He died Tuesday at
O.lando, Fla, whittier he went last o.
tober 10 the hope OF recovering his
health.
At Huron Tuesday was the worst day
Of the winter for railroAding. Traina
from the east, south and north came in
from one to four hours late. The tram
from the west did no.. start out Of Pierre,
No trains left Tie city, and for the frsi
timein y year not a mail left the Huron
postofice. Passengers who started fol-
Bismarck 5uadsy, got as far as Cakes
and cohid get no further.
AT Bismarck Tuesday Mrs. Judge
Francis gave : luncheon in honor 81
Mrs. Judge Thomas. who accompanied
her husband from the Black Hills dis
trict. Mrs. Francis was assisted BY Mrs
GOV. Mccormack, Mrs. ex-Gov. Pierce
Mrs. Attorney General Engle, Mrs. Capt
Hoyt, q. S.A Mrs. E.sH. Wilson, Mrs
=. ". Barnes, Mrs. William ii. Pye
Nrs. ]. w. Clark, Mrs. r. B. Woods and
Mra. NJ. n. Jewell.
Two prisoners In jail AZ Mandan es-
capped Monday night. They wer,
allowed TO walk the corridors. Will,
one prisoner. ex-Freight Conduoto,
Pomrty. watched the iailer, who VA
sitting in his Office, x-Brakema,
Wheeler made q hole in the wall. 4
blizzard Was blowing. the mercury wa
20 below zero, and the prisoners wer
lthinly clad. a prisoner named Clarl
Was left il the jail. having declined /,
join ths othsrs.
Watertown spectral, 3rd: Dusing TIL
past forty-e,ght hours railroad srAve
has been virtually suspended. Thsr
vera no trains In or ont ON tha Miswau
kee & ". Paul To-day. a freight trai,
succesded IN getting through on sh,
Burlington this evening. II was e,gh
hours making the last eighteen miles
The train TO BrookinRs did not 10 out
This mornings passengers Tor the ives
over Tie Northwestern reached Wates
town this evening.
Eu
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-02-05
The Fave Doiiar Certincatss

Vno E1v@ Dollar
Washington. Feb. 3.-The new five
dollar certificates will not be issued until
abcut the middle Of this month, and the
issue will then be very slow and in small
quantities, it having been decided that
il is best to withhold the notes until they
have been much more thoroughly dried
than were the n and two-dollar certiH-
Gates.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-02-05

company, that fact does not detract
from I'D value, and . copy Of Why and
Wherefore" will be sent to any eddress
6y encicsing ten cents in postage TO A ".
Il. Carpenter, General Passenger Agent,
Milwaukee. Wis.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-02-05
r. HOOD

Union Stock Yards, with
sheds, pens and every accom-
mediation for Auction Sales, or
feeding. receiving and selling
cattle, Horses, sheep, Pigs, SC.
on commission.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-15
Strength of Timber

A discussion is going the rounds of the
press as to the relative strength of wet or
dry timber. The Scientific Press says: We
do not believe there is much to be made out
of the discussion. Some kinds of timber are
stronger when dry, while other kinds are
stronger when wet or green. 1t is safe to
say that all woods are harder and less liable
to bend when dry than when wet or green
But most hard woods when wet win possess
more tensile strength than when dry. Tim
Der thoroughly seasoned is more brittle than
when green, and with the necessary force
will break square off, while the same timber
green will stand about the same pressure by
bending more or less without breaking.
Take hickory sapling that is almost i'm
possible to break in its green state, although
it may bend double, and thoroughly dry it
and you may easily break it almost "square
Off" as the boys say. So with almost any
kind of timber. Drying makes it sitter,
more unyielding, but in very few instances
stronger.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-15
ASparaQl1s CIltIlre

A writer in the Florida Agrtculturist
furnishes the following points relative to
the cultivation of asparagus in that State:
l. A thoroughly well drained soil, high
pine or high hammock being the most suit
able, the richness or poverty of the soil
being of comparatively little moment
2 Thorough preparation of the ground
by the removal of all roots, oak runners,
cane grass, etc, a liberal application of
strong durable fertilizer beneath the plant,
and the mixture Herewith of the best of the
soil turned out by the plow or spade.
g. Unstinted supplies of fertilizer in the
form of top dressing subsequently, applied,
say in January and at the commencement
of the rainy season each year.
f. Careful cultivation for the first few
weeks after setting to prevent the earth
from packing in the holes or burrows and
hindering the first shoots from reaching the
surface.
5. Patience sufficient to resist the tempta-
ton to commence cutting before the roots
have become thoroughly established. Two
year-old roots require one clear season, one
year-old roots two seasons, and plants grown
from seed three seasons, before any sprouts
are marketed.
g. And this though we put it last is per-
haps first i'll Importance, cooperation among
neighbors. The experiment is necessarily a
SOMEWHAT cosby one Ill Carried OUT on any
thing approaching a large scale. The soils
and climate of Florida have not yet been
sufficiently tested to allow of predicting
with certainty the success or failure of a
particular product. One mans soil may be
suited and another's in the same neighbor-
hood unsuited to certain crop, or, as in
our own case, one part of bed may fail
where another succeeds In any case every
plant will not provide a marketable shoot
ON the same day, and consequently a soli-
tary grower in district may often find
himself, at the earliest and most remunera-
tive part of the season, with sufficient
grass" to make up few punches, but just
too little to be worth shipment. Now if two
OF three of his neighbors were experiment
ing at the same time, no one would be a
heavy loser in case of failure, and each one
would be considerable gamer by a system
of cooperative shipments. Little by little,
as the results seemed to justify the expendi-
ture, each could enlarge his beds until he
was sure of an independf mt position as re-
CARDS shipping; but during the experiment
al stages, little mutual accommodation
between neighbors would be vastly better
than the system of hanging back to sec
whether a solitary experiment succeeds or
fails before risxing ones own money and
labor, and it would also be tending to estab
lish the new product, whatever it might be,
as Florida product, in the distant mar
kets, and so creating demand, to be filled,
with ever increasing profit to the original
producers, as time proves the experiment a
success.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-15

OO,eO0; wool, 100000 pounds. value
s45,OOO,000; mutton, 5O0,00O,OOO pounds,
value 100000 tobacco, 4S3. 900. 900
pounds, value s42, 900, 900; barley, co,Ooo.-
COO bushels, value S33 ,O0O, 900; rye, 25,oOO,-
oOO bushels, value S14, 900 900; sugar, 25O,-
10000 pounds, value l2,5O0, 600; molasses
syrup, 100000 gallons, value S11 ,250, 900;
buckwheat, 100000 bushels, value 81, 2SO,-
600; rice, 100000 pounds, value $4,000
600; honey, 30,000,000 pounds, value "a, sOO,-
OC0; beeswax, 100000 pounds, value
SS@9,O 200; other soil products, seeds, wines,
ETC., total value $40S, 945, 900, making a grand
aggregate of 81, OH, 100000.
The Indian corn and half the hav pro-
duced may safely be relegated to the pro-
duction of butchers meat and fowls, other
grains eaten being fully sufficient to cover
export corn and that used as human food.
This would leave the value of the products
OF the country, other than the butchers
meat, as upward of $3.50, 100000 Com
parsons will show some interesting data.
Beef, pork, mutton, dairy products and
fowls constitute about one-thrd the total
value OF all products, and fal more than all
the cereal grains-hay, cotton, rice and to-
bacco. Again, our meat products are worth
more than the other agricultural products
except those just enumerated. What in
dustry on the continent can begin to show
such substantial figures as that of agricul-
ture!
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-15
Value of Farm Products.

The Department of Agriculture in Wash
ington states that the value of American
farm produce reaches the vast sum of
four thousand millions of dollars "a, 00O,-
000O0O.
In an itemized table the values are thus
given Indian corn, 1900, 900 bushels,
value, s627 900, 900; $50 100000 bushels of
wheat, value s440, o0O,o 900; dairy products,
including milk, butter and cheese, 1870, 0O0,-
600; hay, 100000 tons, value $3.50, ooo,-
900; dressed beef, 1000 OOo, 900 pounds, value
S360,OOo,o00; pork products, $500, 100000
pounds, value $3.50, DOC, 900; cotton, $780,
100000 pounds Value $3.50, 100000; poultry
products, estimated, S20O,OO0,OOo; oats,
OOo,0O0,0O0 bushels, value s16s, 900; po-
tatoes, 200,000,O 900 bushels, value 500, 00O,
VgOi fruits, 100000, 600; vegetables, $780,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-15
Time to Sow Grass Seeds.

A writer in the Southern CuLtiUdtOr says
that the seeds of most kinds of hardy grasses
ore observed to come up during this month
II showers of rain occur, indicating the
commencement of seed time Owing, how
ever, to the rather unnatural condition of
most of our cultivated lands, as compared
with virgin soils freshly cleared it is better
to defer sowing until the latter part of the
month, or until September or October, ac-
cording to latitude. We have sown grass
in August; but the results do not justify
such early sowing as a rule, as the young
plants are very apt to be destroyed by the
hot sun and dry weather in September
Not only do the ordinary non-cereal grasses
show natural tendency to terminate dur
ing the month of August, but it is a matter
Of common observation that the seed of
oats, rye and barley will lie on the surface
after harvest in May and June, rarely ger
minating until the rains of August have set
in.) The seeds of crab grass and other sum-
mer grasses, although still plentiful in the
soil, rarely come up SO late as August, al
though the seasons may be favorable so far
as rainfall is concerned. Such species seem
to be controlled, in their termination, by a
sort of plant instinct which tells them that
there will not be time to develop another
crop of seed before frost The same natural
instinct encourages the termination of win
ter and perennial grasses-those which will
withstand the frosts Of winter, and which
require longer period in which to develop
growth and maturity. Under favorable
and natural conditions winter grasses gene
rally succeed well if the seeds be sown in
August; but for the reasons already init
mated experience teaches that the following
month is the most suitable time. 1t is well,
however,, to provide seed, allot the ground
and make needed preparations for sowing
during the next two months. On strong,
or moderately fortified clay and lime soils
red clover and orchard grass should be the
Chief reliance; on low and rather moist
bottoms herds grass viii succeed. Poa
drochntferd or Texas blue grass, though
not yet fully established in reputation, is
worthy of trial as a winter pasture grass.
Query. VIII Bermuda and Tfxas blue grass
thrive together7 Bermuda will certainly
and effectually exterminate the Kentucky
blue grass. Such combination, if COM
patible, would furnish a desideratum, an
al-the-year-round pasture. There have been
many favorable reports of burr clover as a
constituent of such pasture. Sown early
in the fall on Bermuda grass sod, it is said
that the former will furnish good winter
grazing, and if stock be taken off in March
will regpad the ground and die down when
the Bermuda will spring into verdure and
growth, and furnish grazing until frost in
the fall.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-15
Popular Science.

Fifty thousand tons of SCOT are taken from
the chimneys of London annually 1t is
valued at $500, 900 and is used for fertilizing
purposes.
The photograph is likely to come to the
front again-this time as a practical and
useful instrument, having been greatly i'm
proved by its inventor.
Thoreau was botanist and firm be-
lever in the theory that wherever disease
or accident occur the remedy will be near at
hand in the form of some growing plant.
If you should have hiccough try one of
the following remedies, every one Of which
is vouched for by, different authorities:
Slightly refrigerate the lobe of the ear:
head; press the finger each side under the
ear, near jawbone; inhale chloroform until
relieved.
To prevent finished iron from rusting coat
thinly with molten paratline. Ten parts I'M
sailed beef tallow and two parts resin melt
ed together and we'll mixed may be applied
while warm. Fresh hogs lard ten parts,
one part alum. one part resin Elelted, well
mixed and applied warm, is also good, The
first can be removed with a mixture OF one
part raw linseed Gil and five parts turpen-
tine while warm. The two last may be re-
moved with spirits OF tllrpcntiue.
Paper window glass is now said to he an
assured fact. AS described: "A window
pane is made of white paper, manufactured
from cotton or linen, and modified by chem
ical action. Afterward tho paper is dipped
in q preparation of camphor and alcohol,
which makes it like parchment. From this
point it can be nodded and cut into remark
ably tough sheets entirely transparent, and
it can be dyed with almost the whole Of the
aniline colors the result being transparent
ehntx1n,r FOR mr. vivid htInc tha f1o
best glass exhibits"
Prof. Atwood, in his second article on
foods in the June Century, devotes some
pages TO exploding and ridiculing the pre-
vailing notion that mental exertion CON
sumes much phosphorus in the brain, and
that, consequently, fish is specially good
brain food on account Of containing much
phosphorus. He denies that fish is pecu-
liarly rich in phosphorus, or that there is
any evidence chat the brain uses an over
proportion of phosphorus, or that there Is
any more connection between thought and
phosphorus than other elements of food.
DIR. GrifIiths, an English physician, has
recently demonstrated that iron sulphate il
an antidote for many of the most virulent
epidemics which attack field and garden
crops. These diseases are due 10 micro
seopic funguses, whose structures are built
up in somewhat different manner from
the corresponding parts Of other plants. 10
appears that the cellulose in these fungtlses
is acted upon by iron sulphate, whereas in
the higher plants the cellulose of the cell
walls is not influenced The iron allphate
DESTROYS the celulose OF the funguses, but
does not affect that Of the attacked plant
IL is. therefore, an antidote and destroyer
OF such parasitic germs and tunguses US the
potato disease. wheat mildew. etc.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-15
Household,

BAKED TOMATOES. the tomatoes
and place on an earthen pie plate with deep
paste: season with butter, salt and pepper.
Bake slowly.
To DESTROY BED BUGs.-Take can, box
or gourd, fill full Of dirt and put in it a
piece of meat. Find an ant bed; set the
box by it; the ants will move in the box
then cover with cloth and set it by the
bedstead. Catch one or two bugs and drop
in the box to start the ants In two days
there will not be bug in the house. Then
throw the box away. This method never
fails and nothing ruined by scalding.
COFFEE Ice CREAM-One breakfast cup
full of strong, clear coffee, one breakfast
cupful of boiling milk, four ounces of pull
verizod sugar, one pint of cream and five
velks of eggs. Put the coffee boiling milk,
sugar and the yelks of eggs (well beaten)
into porcelain-lmed saucepan and mix all
well together Place on the fire, stirring
constantly, till il thickens when add the
cream Continue to stir over the fire until
about to boil, when take off and allow to
cool. When cold put INTO freezer and
freeze.
PEACH SHORT CAKE.-Take two cups of
creamery buttered -four; add one cup of
water or milk; mix quickly but thoroughly
with a spoon II little sweetening is de-
sired add two heaping tablespoonfuls of SUI
gar when mixing. Drop into Jelly-cake
tins and bake in a quick oven. This recipe
will make two good-sized layers. After
baking put the peaches previously pared
and sliced thin between the layers and upon
the top layer, sprinkling the fruit with su-
gar. Cut into slices like pie and serve with
cream or rich milk.
BROKEN EGG PLAYT.--TalSe ripe speci
men and with a sharp knife cut in two
lengthwise, cut out the contents from one
half, leaving enough adhering TO the skin
TO keep it in shape. If there are five or six
in the family this will be sufficient, the rest
can be kept for another meal. Cook the
vegetable until tender, just as you would a
pumpkin, it will take about four hours;
There must not be too much water. Drain
very dry; mix into it a large lump Of but
ter. salt and pepper, a trihe of onion, yelk
Of one egg; moisten with cream or con-
densed milk, enough 10 make a thick batter.
Fill the empty shell with the batter, sprin-
ltle the top with bread crumbs aud bake
fifteen minutes in quick oven.